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I'm not interested. Why would I be? I also don't need fiction to know what a human-curated search engine would be like, because I was using the web in the 90s

• dylan604 4y ago
  Well, you can be a curmudgeon and not enjoy someone's recommendation for a decent bit of entertainment, or you can say just politely carry on and be a grouch in the living room of your trashcan, or you could maybe try something new and actually consider watching something you haven't seen yet. edit: softened the tone oh so slightly
  • smt88 4y ago
    Sorry, I misinterpreted your suggestion as, "This is not a novel idea, and you should watch how badly it goes when someone on this TV show tries the same thing." I didn't insult you or your suggestion, though. I said I wasn't interested in the show and that it doesn't inform my understanding of the concept. Why did that hurt your feelings enough to make insulting accusations about my personality and character?
    • dylan604 4y ago
      "I'm not interested. Why would I be?" That just reads as a rude way to respond to me. "Why would I be?" Because you just described a plot line of a show. It might be fun to see how someone used that plot to make a show that someone reading HN might actually enjoy. Both sentences combined also reads as "I am perfectly content in my ways and will not listen to anything anyone might kindly suggest because I know all". Maybe because it's election season, but this unwilling to listen and stonewall is quite tiresome. So maybe just rubbed me the wrong way because of everything else and might not been taken the same way at a different time?
• croes 4y ago
  Fiction maybe helps to see another point of view